I meant the actual decoding part, not the formatting part. I already had it in the cube it needed to be in and could see the āinner codeā. Thanks, though.
I ended up just writing a Python script to output a PNG with PIL that an app was then able to scan just fine.
Ah, joy! Noticed the pattern with VS Code, and spent way more time than I should have needed writing a Python script to generate a PNG. Output became perfect, so a breeze to scan.
I really enjoyed this one, as someone who was super late to owning a smartphone I think this one took me way too long. PM me if that hint doesnāt land.
This challenge is actually really straightforward if you read the clues in the question. 50:50 is actually important and as @tacotime247 said smartphone.